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Bounced a Bit. When Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz went to Bal Harbour to argue the "good sense" and "good results" of the guidelines, the labor barons were hostile. "We bounced him around a bit," one official said of the private meeting with Wirtz. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, 71, issued a pronunciamento that sounded like a declaration of independence from the Democrats. "I'm quite sure the labor movement is prepared to make its own way politically," harrumphed the old Bronx plumber. "I don't buy the idea that we have no place to go. Some...
...substance in its solid and liquid states, besides offering a new approach to studies of the melting process. In retrospect, Kennedy's discovery might seem obvious, but the startling truth is that generations of scientists overlooked it. "The profession must be full of asses," says Nobel Prize Chemist Willard Libby, discoverer of the carbon-14 dating process. "How can anyone be so stupid as not to have seen...
Within the context of that fear, even good news can sound bad. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz proudly announced some statistics: last month, for the first time in nine years, U.S. unemployment fell to 4% ; by year's end said Wirtz, the figure ought to reach 3.5%, and driving it even lower should be "a first-priority national objective." Although nobody favors unemployment, there were some fretful murmurs about the inflationary potential presented by nearly full employment. Scarcities of labor mean higher wages, and higher wages, with U.S. plants working close to capacity, conjure up the specter of too much...
Having done nothing to help end the New York City transit strike, President Johnson was on doubtful ground when he denounced the settlement as a violation of the Government's supposedly voluntary wage-price guidelines. Even more questionable was Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's after-the-settlement attempt to blame beleaguered Republican Mayor John Lindsay for the guideline violation. The N.Y. Times described the remarks of Democrats Johnson and Wirtz as "blatantly political"-which of course they were. Yet even such editorial cavils served only to obscure some more basic questions-relating to the rather remarkable history...
...Washington for a confrontation with Ackley and White House Aide Joseph Califano. After 90 minutes, Ackley called in newsmen to repeat his foregone conclusion: Bethlehem's price move was unjustifiable. Meanwhile, other Administration officials warned executives of other steel companies against following Bethlehem's line. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, for one, tried to persuade Chicago's Inland Steel, next only to Bethlehem and U.S. Steel as a producer of structural shapes, to stand pat. Wirtz had every reason to believe that Inland and its Chairman Joseph L. Block would cooperate: after all, it had been Block...